Suspects Also Have Human Rights
When a woman jumps from a tall building to her death following a police interrogation, we all have to do some soul-searching. I advocate as few laws as possible. But after yesterday’s suicide by a worker for Lev Leviev who is being investigated for diamond smuggling, I am thinking about a law that would obligate the police to freeze the entire investigation until a non-police probe into the circumstances of the suicide. People’s honor, liberty and lives have become very cheap